Paul Hanson

Paul Hanson is Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1971. After completing his PhD in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilisations in 1970, he spent a year doing archaelogical research in Israel, and spent sabbatical years in Israel, Germany and most recently at Princeton. His research interest is Hebrew prophecy, biblical theology, Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period and the religion of the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Among his many publications are The Dawn of Apocalyptic, Dynamic Transcendence, The Diversity of Scripture and The People Called.